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Poster - Fostering Stakeholder Engagement By Building Archivist Competencies.Pptx, Anne Daniel, Amanda Jamieson, Amanda Oliver Jun 2017

Poster - Fostering Stakeholder Engagement By Building Archivist Competencies.Pptx, Anne Daniel, Amanda Jamieson, Amanda Oliver

Anne Daniel

Technological competencies are required for most areas of an archivist’s professional practice. How does an archivist’s level of technological competency affect their engagement with records, researchers, stakeholders and colleagues? What are the core technical knowledge, skills, and abilities that the profession requires in order to engage with our stakeholders in a meaningful way? Archivists must engage with their communities where they are and how they want to receive information, which is increasingly online.

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Promoting The Value Of Special Collections: A Subject Librarians' Approach, Anne Larrivee, Leslie Vega Oct 2016

Promoting The Value Of Special Collections: A Subject Librarians' Approach, Anne Larrivee, Leslie Vega

Anne Larrivee

No abstract provided.

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Navigating Reference Requests: An Examination Of Academic Archivists' Use Of Reference Tools, Anne Daniel, Amanda Jamieson, Amanda Oliver May 2015

Navigating Reference Requests: An Examination Of Academic Archivists' Use Of Reference Tools, Anne Daniel, Amanda Jamieson, Amanda Oliver

Anne Daniel

Traditionally, archivists have engaged in arrangement and description and created finding aids to be used as guides to fonds and collections. The creation of finding aids is a traditional archival function that continues today. The availability of technology, such as a databases, is changing the way that archivists conduct their work. This research examines the tools that archivists use to answer reference questions and begins to look at the following issues. What other tools do archivists use when they assist their researchers? Should the creation of finding aids continue to be a priority for archivists or has the time come …

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Exploring Eac-Cpf With The Remixing Archival Metadata Project (Ramp), Allison O'Dell, Mairelys Lemus-Rojas May 2014

Exploring Eac-Cpf With The Remixing Archival Metadata Project (Ramp), Allison O'Dell, Mairelys Lemus-Rojas

Allison Jai O'Dell

No abstract provided.

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Assessing The Strategic Credibility Of Special Collections, Erin Passehl, Rick A. Stoddart May 2012

Assessing The Strategic Credibility Of Special Collections, Erin Passehl, Rick A. Stoddart

Rick A Stoddart

In this time of often precarious funding at many colleges and universities, any case that can be made to illustrate how a department strategically fits into the overall university mission is not only worth merit, but an essential survival technique. This “strategic credibility” within the university is a vital form of currency in determining institution-wide resources prioritization, collaboration opportunities between organizational units, and overall direction of departments. This paper presents a case study of academic special collections in the Northwest and examines the methods these departments use to demonstrate value to the university. This paper considers how well do special …

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Mail Order Archives: Starting The Archives At Utah Valley University, Catherine Mcintyre Nov 2009

Mail Order Archives: Starting The Archives At Utah Valley University, Catherine Mcintyre

Catherine McIntyre

This humorous presentation traces the history of Utah Valley University from a vocational school to a university, and tells how the school's first centralized archives was started by an inexperienced librarian who learned a lot about archives from the mail-order catalogs from which she ordered materials.

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Beyond The Blue: Creating Digital Collections At Boise State University, Erin Passehl May 2009

Beyond The Blue: Creating Digital Collections At Boise State University, Erin Passehl

Erin Passehl Stoddart

No abstract provided.

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Visual Representations Of Student Life At San Jose State University; Building Visual Critical Thinking Skills, Danelle L. Moon Jul 2007

Visual Representations Of Student Life At San Jose State University; Building Visual Critical Thinking Skills, Danelle L. Moon

Danelle L. Moon

No abstract provided.

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Documenting Tragedy At The University Of Wisconsin-Madison: Historic Plaques, Remembrance Books, And Implications For Archives And Memory, Erin Passehl May 2007

Documenting Tragedy At The University Of Wisconsin-Madison: Historic Plaques, Remembrance Books, And Implications For Archives And Memory, Erin Passehl

Erin Passehl Stoddart

On August 24, 1970, a bomb exploded outside Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The bombing killed an innocent physics researcher, injured three others, and devastated the physics department located inside Sterling Hall. This presentation considers two common themes: documenting “official” history and memory and implications for archives including the affect of collective and social memories on archives, collection policies, and access points. This presentation examines local agencies and their means of portraying and advancing histories and memories of the bombing over the past thirty-six years.

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Understanding From Context: Pairing Ead And Digital Repository Description, Ann Hanlon, Jennifer Roper Jul 2005

Understanding From Context: Pairing Ead And Digital Repository Description, Ann Hanlon, Jennifer Roper

Ann Hanlon

No abstract provided.

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